X: Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

[Markus Hoenicka]

At 2015-08-10 15:44, Achim Gratz was heard to say:
> Markus Hoenicka <markus.hoenicka <at> mhoenicka.de> writes:
>> I've noticed the discussion about those changes, but I don't fully
>> understand the impact of them  (and hopefully I don't have to). But I
>> don't think my problem argues against Corinna's changes because HOME
>> does not exist in my Windows environment. HOMEDRIVE and HOMEPATH exist
>> though. I suppose HOME is set by some scripts in /etc as the docs
>> suggest.
> 
> So what are these environment variables set to and what is the value of
> $HOME?  I don't see how what you've described could result in the 
> windows
> path for $HOME that you've shown.  Additionally, the location of the
> .Xauthority file suggests that $HOME has a different value when this 
> file
> gets created and somehow has changed later when you try to start an X
> application.
> 

set|more in a DOS box shows:

HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\Users\<username>

I don't know if these are relevant if you use roaming profiles though. 
The path I've shown as $HOME is not arcane at all. In a windows exlorer, 
this is something like H:/My Documents/home/<username>. But why do you 
think that HOME can be subject to changes during a session? And why does 
it *not* change if I set HOME to a local drive?

regards,
Markus


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